7.8 /10 1 Votes
Initial release 30 May 2012 Air date May 30, 2012 | 7.7/10 IMDb Editor Lucas Roche | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cast John Cooper Clarke, Plan B, Steve Coogan, Bill Bailey, Jarvis Cocker Similar Punk's Not Dead, Joe Strummer: The Futur, Poetry in Motion, The Filth and the Fury, X: The Unheard Music | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Evidently john cooper clarke trailer
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke is a 2012 television documentary about the life of the Salford performance poet John Cooper Clarke. It was directed by John Ross and produced by Scotty Clark and was first aired on BBC Four in May 2012 as part of BBC Four and BBC 6 Music's "Punk Britannia" season. It features testimonies from Alex Turner, Bill Bailey, Pete Shelley, Paul Farley, Steve Coogan, Mark Radcliffe, Craig Charles, Plan B, Kate Nash, Miranda Sawyer and Paul Morley; and poems by Clarke including "Things Are Gonna Get Worse", "Evidently Chickentown", "Twat" and "Beasley Street".
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Critical reception
John Crace, writing for The Guardian, described the documentary as "a film that dealt in myths rather than reality" but assessed Clarke as "still clever, funny and relevant." Mark Monahan in The Daily Telegraph wrote that the programme "veered too close to comfort towards hagiography" but "was nevertheless perhaps a fair reflection of the affection with which [Clarke] has been widely regarded."